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Summary: Remember when Super Bowl commercials were simply Super Bowl commercials — i.e. spots that ran during the actual Super Bowl? They’re becoming a rather distant memory these days, as more and more brands take to tweeting, teasing, and even previewing their spots well before the big game.

Summary: The advertising spots for the Super Bowl are attracting a lot of buzz, and few more than the spots from Honda and H&M. Honda just revealed that it is the company behind the You-Tube hit of Broderick’s reprise appearance of Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, and this week H&M released the advertisement that features Mr. Soccer himself, David Beckham, in his underwear.

Summary: The fun thing about the Super Bowl is that when it comes near, mainstream media shifts its coverage to advertising. Advertising gets hit from all angles by the media, too: what’s good advertising, what’s bad advertising, why does our society need advertising, the invasiveness of advertising, and so on. Many pieces are off point, and some are not. It is important, though, for the advertising industry to speak up when such media critics pop their heads into our domain to give their two cents about advertising. One such head is Esquire’s Stephen Marche, who wrote a piece today about bringing back good advertising.